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macVC

Native Metal build of GTA Vice City for Apple Silicon Macs — download only

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 30%) · 1 view

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Porting a complex 3D commercial game engine like GTA Vice City (e.g. re3) natively to Apple Silicon with a Metal graphics backend requires deep systems programming and graphics API expertise.

What it would actually take: Building this requires reverse-engineering source code (such as the re3/reVC codebase) in C++, replacing DirectX/OpenGL rendering backends with Apple's Metal shading language, and handling ARM64 architecture memory alignment and platform-specific audio/input libraries. It requires specialized graphics engineering, Apple platform SDK expertise, and game engine porting experience.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 683 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #226 of 684 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 288 days after the earliest competitor.

  • mac3 · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.82
  • muguet · github · 2026-10-10 · 591 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • liberty-pro-max · github · 2026-11-02 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Theft4 · github · 2026-09-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • gta-vcs-recomp · github · 2026-10-30 · 453 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • ViceBounce · github · 2026-10-18 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • LibertyRecomp · github · 2026-10-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • CyPort · github · 2026-10-14 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.54

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